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I''m having an argument with my son :) I have a table with about 1500 objects called entries. I need to do something with about 100 of them (schedule manually) I say I should just mark them with a boolean when I have scheduled them. (manual == true) My son says I should pull them out of the entries table and copy them to new objects (lets call them "manual" objects, and store

How does one do a SELECT MAX query in rails? I''ve searched and searched and tried lots of things with no luck. I want to implement "SELECT MAX(column_name) from table_name and have it return the maximum value from column_name. I just need to get that one value, not the whole object... Thanks for any ideas... Shelby _______________________________________________ Rails mailing

Using a <%= form_tag ... %>, how do I give a form a name, so that I can reference it with javascript? I sure can''t figure this out from the docs... Thanks, Shelby PS - what I am trying to do is just have the focus in the first form field when the form is loaded. There has to be an easy way to do this, but I can''t figure it out... -------------- next part --------------

I have a database field called dates in which I am trying to serialize an array of DateTime objects. When I unserialize them, they are coming back in as Time objects. I know this, because I am getting errors that say "comparison between Time and DateTime failed. Why is this happening? Is there a way to prevent it?? Thanks Shelby -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment

I have a rather complex object with a number of attributes. For a variety of reasons, I would like one view to create the object with only a couple of fields completed, then a second and third view to finish all the fields. I would like the model to validate_presence_of all these fields, since eventually I need them all there, and I would like each page to validate its portion of the fields that

Let''s say I have an application and I want to create an admin program that will show me who is currently online using the application. I don''t know the best way to do this. Assuming I am storing my sessions in the default PStore, I don''t suppose there is any method that lists all the active sessions, is there? The only way I can think of to do this is to setup a

Reading the Agile book, I can''t find a single command to save a collection. The save command seems to operate on only individual objects. Lets say I have a collection that I have received from a find_all command. I want to go through and change some attributes in various objects in the collection. Then I want to resave the whole collection back to the database. I don''t think

I''m studying the Agile Development with Rails book. In the chapter that first sets up the depot application (page 68), there is this bit of code from a view: <% for product in @products %> <tr> <% for column in Product.content_columns %> <td><%=h product.send(column.name) %></td> <% end %> etc... I am trying to absorb both Ruby and

I am confused about ruby fast C bindings. Does the command: gem install mysql install these? Is this page: http://www.tmtm.org/en/mysql/ruby/ the home page for these bindings? If so, it gives no instructions about installing them with using gem. Wondering if this is all the same??? Thanks for any help... Shelby _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list

I have an ActiveRecord model (called Festival) that contains an array of "FestDate" objects serialized into a sql text column of the Festival object. (like the Agile book first edition describes on p. 205) The FestDate objects themselvs are not ActiveRecord objects. (of course, otherwise they would be in their own table...) When working with a Festival, I would like to use various

I have a bit of code in a controller that looks like this: @current_festival.monitor_preferences.each do |pref| if pref.user_id == @me.id pref.preference = params[:monitor_pref] #pref.save end end @current_festival.save_with_validation(false) the Festival class has_many :monitor_preferences the MonitorPreference class belongs_to :festival In the configuration above, the

I would like to use the collection_select with a simply array as the source of the collection. My array looks like this: STATES = ["Alabama", "Alaska", "Texas"] and it is stored in my environment.rb I can''t figure out the syntax for the collection_select in this situation... collection_select("my_object", "state", what goes here??? ) I

What is the proper syntax to apply a css class to a link created using link_to? I''ve tried <%= link_to("details", :class => "details", :action => "edit", :id => event) %> but that creates a link which looks like /admin/events/edit/3?class=details which is not what I''m looking for. Kyle Heon

I rememeber seeing an article about how to cope with legacy databases where the primary key is defined as VARCHAR2. I only want read-access to the data. Does anyone have a link to such an article? Or can give advice? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hi Shelby, No prob, You are having trouble b/c you don''t call @festival.valid? before this line: if !(@festival.errors.invalid? :name ) # => true if name is invalid I wasn''t clear about it in my post, but ActiveRecord::Errors#invalid? doesn''t actually do validations. It just looks at the associated errors object (which is empty if validation hasn''t

Dear R gurus, I'm running into a problem with some modified segment plots I've coded using stars(). What I am trying to do is superimpose two series of data along with radial axes markers in a 2x2 graphics frame. This is working fine now, except for the hitch: my plots overfill the frame and are not centered within it (on my runs they always end up looking like they've been budged

Hi, I have trouble setting up chrooted SFTP for our user. I got the basic SFTP chroot working, user is chrooted to its home directory, I've added /home/userb/etc directory with dummy passwd, group and localtime files. The problem is that instead of only accessing its own files, I need the user to be able to remove another users files. I have web application which runs as different user, the

Hi UserRs, I know that there has to be an easy way to do this in R (probably easy enough that once someone clues me in I'll smack myself on the forehead for not figuring it out myself), but my searches on my own have not yielded any hints. I have many fields in my dataset that participants entered as "free lists" - i.e., the field constitutes a varying number of names each

Hello to all! First I want to appologize if this topic has been already discussed but the search does not work :) I have RoR installed on a shared server. I also have a RoR application installed in a subdomain. The structure is as follows: www //this is my home WWW folder +--- www //maps to www.mydomain.com | +--- webapp //maps to webapp.mydomain.com. Here is my RoR application |

For example, I have a webapp that handles /welcome. Does unicorn support to mount the entire webapp at /prefix so request to /prefix/welcome are?handled?